On March 13 my family and I began physical distancing and sheltering at home. At that time there were 2,224 reported cases of COVID–19 and 50 deaths in the U.S. Nearly two months later the infection number has grown to 1.5 million cases and the death rate has soared to 90,000 , and both these…
No masks; large group; infection spike in Ohio on its way? Countdown by countingdownto.com
In the late 1990s, when I was in graduate school in Canada, there was an ongoing debate about what it meant to be a Canadian. Some of this soul-searching can be attributed to the fallout of the failed 1995 Quebec referendum. It was also a product of Canadian’s reflecting on how it should deal with…
I am continually amazed by the number of people that continue to push a demonstrably false narrative about the separation of families at the border and the Obama administration. It is true that under President Obama kids were separated from their parents, but this was not the de facto policy. Even if the previous administration…
I guess I must be confused on June 18, 2018 Secretary Kirstjen Nielson tweeted the following: But, if there was no policy of separating families at the border, then why was it necessary for the President to sign an Executive Order reversing the policy —a policy which presumably came about by a previous order from…